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2016-02-29

Dick Cheney Poisoned Hundreds Of US Troops In Iraq — They’re Dying — And The Media Is Silent

Vatic Note: This does not surprise me, since he knew that the Khazars in Israel were sniping and killed over 400 of our troops and blamed it on the Iraqi's. He did nothing about it to Israel for doing that, just like Johnson nothing to them for the USS Liberty.

If he would do that, he would do anything. I am impressed with the level of TREASON I am seeing in our own country by our elected and appointed leaders who obviously have loyalty to the globalists and not to our sovereign nation or its people. We must have loyalty to ourselves. Time to contemplate our responses to all of this warring they are doing against us and other nations.

The legacy of death and misery from the invasions of Iraq and
Afghanistan continues today, and, once again, Dick Cheney plays a
central role. A new book by Joseph Hickman, a former U.S. Marine and
Army sergeant, titled “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” details how soldiers and local civilian populations were exposed to constant streams of toxic smoke from the burning of waste.

The infamous Kellog, Brown, and Root (KBR), which was a part of Dick
Cheney’s corporate empire under Halliburton, operated about 250 burn
pits which contributed to the $40 billion that Halliburton made during
the Iraq occupation. “Every type of waste imaginable” was burned,
including “tires, lithium batteries, asbestos insulation, pesticide
containers, Styrofoam, metals, paints, plastic, medical waste and even
human corpses.”

This reprehensible practice proves yet again that nothing is sacred when it comes to the military machine.

Just as the U.S. laid waste to Vietnam’s human health and jungle
environment with Agent Orange, it wrecked human health and environmental
quality in Iraq. That country will suffer from this toxicity for
decades, as evidenced by sharp increases in birth defects and cancer and
leukemia rates.

Likewise, U.S. veterans and their families are bearing the brunt of this travesty.
“The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers”
begins with the story of a healthy young soldier sent to Iraq who was
constantly exposed to smoke from burn pits. When he returned home with
respiratory problems, the Veterans Administration (VA) denied him care,
and he later developed brain cancer and died.

Those who do survive are having children with birth defects at a rate
three times higher than normal, according to the book. The denial of
medical coverage by the VA for burn pit-related illnesses is a central
strategy in denying that burn pits even posed a health hazard.

Beau Biden, the son of vice president Joe Biden, died of brain cancer
after serving in Iraq in the vicinity of burn pits. Even this tragedy,
which is similar to many stories of exposure and death, never brought
attention to the issue of burn pits.

“I think the Department of Defense does its best to squash this story
and so does Veterans Affairs. They really don’t want this out at all.”

Hickson interviewed one former KBR employee who was very reluctant to
even talk about burn pits for fear of repercussions, as he was harassed
by KBR when he previously came forward about the issue. By using
private contractors for such operations, the DoD facilitates these
egregious assaults on human and environmental health because contractors
are not held to the standards of the military.

This dependency on contractors feeds their tendency for carelessness.
According to Hickson, the upper management said at one point, “If they’re going to investigate us over these burn pits, don’t worry about it. If we pull out, they can’t run this base.”

The U.S. government, in its effort to conceal the impact of burn
pits, even managed to influence a World Health Organization report that
downplayed the effects. It stands in stark contrast to several
independent researchers who found large increases in birth defects,
leukemia, cancer and other carcinogenic diseased in populations living
near burn pits.

“There’s a large group of epidemiologists that absolutely believe
that that report was influenced by the U.S. government. Dr. Mozhgan
Savabieasfahani, a widely respected environmental toxicologist, has been
there and seen the birth defects and how we literally destroyed that
country with pollution. There are birth defects there that don’t even
have medical names yet.”

The evidence compiled by Hickson and presented in his book makes it
downright criminal for the DoD and politicians to continue denying the
issue. When veterans suffering from burn-pit illnesses contact their
Congressmen, there is silence because they are in bed with the defense
industry.

General David Petraeus and other top DoD officials have denied the
health effects of burn pits, but veterans have no recourse because they
can’t sue the government. There is a lawsuit against KBR, but the DoD
will not acknowledge that the burn pits were misused.

While politicians and military brass issue patriotic platitudes about
honoring those who serve their country, the reality is that soldiers
are just a name and a number, and they’re thrown away when the military
machine is done with them. Defense corporations reap billions as
veterans and local populations suffer sickness and death.

Please share this article in the hope that exposure can force accountability for the toxic legacy of burn pits.

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